1696

The English Parliament passes the fourth Navigation Act

1692

Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts

1688

The Glorious Revolution in England

1686

Imperial reorganization in the northern colonies

1681

William Penn founds the colony of Pennsylvania

Summer -- Autumn 1676

Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia

1675

King Philip's (Metacomet's) War, New England

1664

The colonies of New York and New Jersey are created

1663

The Carolina colony is founded

1662

Puritans in Massachusetts Bay establish the "halfway covenant"

1660

English Civil War ends and the monarchy is restored

1656

Quakers begin to arrive in the Massachusetts Bay colony

1649

Lord Baltimore approves the Toleration Act in Maryland

1644

The Rhode Island colony is founded

1642

The English Civil War begins

1636

Thomas Hooker establishes a settlement in present-day Hartford, Connecticut

1638

Trial of Anne Hutchinson, Massachusetts Bay

1632

Lord Baltimore founds the colony of Maryland

1630

Puritans settle in Massachusetts Bay

1622

Conflicts between Virginians and the Powhatan Tribe

November 1620

The Pilgrims (Separatists) found the colony of Plymouth

1619

The House of Burgesses is established in Virginia

1619

The first Africans arrive in the New World

1617

Colonists at Jamestown export the first shipment of tobacco to England

1608

France establishes a permanent settlement in Quebec

1607

English settlers, led by Captain John Smith, settle in Virginia